Post #2544931

2026-05-05 23:42 UTC

#LizardReport It&#39;s been cool the last few days since I got back, but warmed up enough today that the lizards started coming back out. Still haven&#39;t seen Bill or Donna, but Cutie, the tiger whiptail, the zebratail and the white iguana came over to get fed. While I was feeding Cutie, a big ol&#39; bobcat strolled down the alley 30 feet away. The great horned owl, which for some reason was out during the day, hooted at the bobcat from up on its perch on the power pole. After lunch, one of the neighborhood Harris&#39; hawks popped a bunny rabbit right in the front yard and flew off with it. And then just now, on my way out the front gate for a walk, I happened to look into one of the cactus clumps right next to the sidewalk. Now I know where the Western diamondback rattlesnake I saw two days ago hangs out. And the day isn&#39;t even close to over yet! #HerpReport It&#39;s beeen a #MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom kind of day.

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@Mikal@sfba.social 2026-05-06 03:01

On the way back from the gym, I saw the neighbor's cat, the one I'm afraid is going to eat my lizard friends and that hunts birds in my yard, stalking something in the cactus. I assumed it was a lizard so yelled and it ran away. When I went over to look, it was the rattlesnake coiled up in strike position and very agitated. Looks like the cat isn't very smart about snakes so nature will take its course with that little monster eventually.

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@955_36@sfba.social 2026-05-06 00:09

@Mikal@sfba.social You're living in a freakin' zoo. A dangerous one, but still pretty cool. I saw a bobcat once when I was out photographing in the wilderness. It clambered up on a big rock I was standing on, and my first thought was it was the cutest thing I'd ever seen. Then I started worrying where it's mother was. Unfortunately it scampered off before I could get the camera out of my backpack. Today I was moving a roll of some landscape fabric today that's been sitting outside. I unrolled some of it to dry out and disturbed two lizards. Thought of you and your lizards, wishing I had some mealworms for them. They were the biggest lizards I've seen around here, maybe 8-10". Never seen a pair around here before. I hope I didn't disturb anything.

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@Catawu@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 00:21

@Mikal@sfba.social The owls might have newly hatched mouths to feed.

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